kalpol
@kalpol@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 5 days ago:
It really depends so much on disc type. I have CDs burned in the 90s that still work, and DVDs that delaminated two years later. Just depends.
My PlayStation games still work fine.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
MS 356
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
I’m guessing you typoed, but it is intrare
Intro intras intrat
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 week ago:
Yeah the closed ecosystem is just cutting off your nose to game on your face
- Comment on Still trying to figure it out... 1 week ago:
Missed the joke by this much…
“not all Australian animals can kill you… Don’t get me wrong, he wants to, but he just can’t”
- Comment on Dusting off the old PS2 1 week ago:
All this and no Shadow of the Colossus
- Comment on Dying Light 2 weeks ago:
No its Fart Lie
- Comment on Dying Light 2 weeks ago:
FTL is a standard holiday game fore, as well as getting people on a Total Annihilation server. Still super hard and still super awesome
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 3 weeks ago:
I think these are better specs than my E7440, which will play Minecraft
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 3 weeks ago:
Not quite a server, but Total Annihilation. Awesome times. Not sure if supreme commander does it too.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
I’m aware of these, but invariably when discussing with my intercompany peers it’s a hard no. When a company completely ditches MS it literally makes the news. The cost vs complexity formula must not make sense (also user retraining and interoperability problems are not solved here either).
I would love to break the stranglehold MS has on general corporate productivity computing but I also want to keep my job.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Linux is missing enterprise management tools. For all its horrible flaws, nothing like SCCM, In tune, group policy, and Active Directory (in the sense of managing group policy, not so much identity) exist for Linux. Fix that, even commercially, and you might see a real change.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
It’s the one drive cramming that really gets me, well also changing the right click context menu to hide cut and paste, wtf.
But seriously, not letting you move the Onedrive pin down the hotlinks sidebar out of the way? Extremely annoying.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 3 weeks ago:
The auction part is the best though, because you can now have it done by AI…run by the ad company. So competing companies both buy the ad companies’ AI to battle to win the auction for the ad companies’ space. They’re dipping at both ends and in the middle, which is a nice place to be
- Comment on I paint houses 3 weeks ago:
The solution is right up there
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 4 weeks ago:
Apple just has better image control
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 4 weeks ago:
Ever seen a Chromebook? Almost no drive space, because Google.
- Comment on Fun/interesting things to self host? 5 weeks ago:
Searxng. Just use a private instance.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 5 weeks ago:
Firewall with pfblocker and good feeds solves most of the problem. Spamassassin and URLBLs still work. It really isn’t hard, once you set it up the config never changes. The static IP is by far the worst part.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 5 weeks ago:
And here I am resurrecting Dell laptops from 2010 with 1.5gb DDR RAM and Debian
- Comment on The Enshittification of Plex Is Kicking Off, Starting with Free Roku Users 1 month ago:
how, indeed
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 1 month ago:
Works fine for me as well. Using public instances can be hit or miss. I just installed it locally, which I get is not possible for many, but it does work. Try lesser known instances.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
The only real usability issue I’ve had is auto cataloging. It isnt right much of the time. But I don’t have any remote users that don’t have network access so that simplifies things a whole lot.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Yeah hell to the naww. They’re also probably tracking all your viewing habits and monetizing that data, they’d be foolish not to with that kind of access.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
You are entirely entitled to do whatever you want, but for me I go into a towering rage when something I own is taken over for someone else’s ads.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Locking horns with users
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I never checked to see what was actually in the logs but when i was running Plex, it constantly tried to send a lot of log data to its masters. That alone was enough to budge me up and get Jellyfin. Jellyfin isn’t as polished but it works perfectly fine for me.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Don’t know all the answers but the home screen has the “Recently Added” rows if you scroll down.
- Comment on She was a cultural pioneer 1 month ago:
This is not even the original Wednesday, boo
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 1 month ago:
FX-8350 and 1070. But I got 32GB of DDR3…I think, I don’t even remember what I put in here in 2016